The North American Review, Volume 67O. Everett, 1848 - North American review and miscellaneous journal Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... John Harvey , a military officer of distinguished merit , and who , as former governor of New Brunswick , † and thence trans- ferred to the executive chair of Newfoundland , possessed much political experience . Specially instructed by ...
... John Harvey , a military officer of distinguished merit , and who , as former governor of New Brunswick , † and thence trans- ferred to the executive chair of Newfoundland , possessed much political experience . Specially instructed by ...
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... John communicated to the Colonial Secretary the failure of this overture , and received in answer the first de- spatch of Earl Grey which is named at the head of this article . " While I regret , " says the Earl , " your want of success ...
... John communicated to the Colonial Secretary the failure of this overture , and received in answer the first de- spatch of Earl Grey which is named at the head of this article . " While I regret , " says the Earl , " your want of success ...
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... John Russell , now enjoys the highest honors to which a Colonist can aspire . Thus we record the adoption of the system of " responsible government " in Nova Scotia ; an event which , though sure to happen sooner or later , because of ...
... John Russell , now enjoys the highest honors to which a Colonist can aspire . Thus we record the adoption of the system of " responsible government " in Nova Scotia ; an event which , though sure to happen sooner or later , because of ...
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... John Russell to Sir John Harvey , in 1839 , which in Colonial politics acquired the name of the " Russell Purge , " was thought at the time to contain doctrines wholly irreconcilable with justice to per- sons who held official stations ...
... John Russell to Sir John Harvey , in 1839 , which in Colonial politics acquired the name of the " Russell Purge , " was thought at the time to contain doctrines wholly irreconcilable with justice to per- sons who held official stations ...
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... John Harvey , and who is also an officer in the army , had encountered no organized opposition to his measures at the time when our former remarks were committed to the press ; but they had hardly been published , before the As- sembly ...
... John Harvey , and who is also an officer in the army , had encountered no organized opposition to his measures at the time when our former remarks were committed to the press ; but they had hardly been published , before the As- sembly ...
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Page 408 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Page 423 - There is a lad here which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes ; but what are they among so many ? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down.
Page 142 - The condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts unpublished are going on in every reflective head, is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition.
Page 408 - ... abundance to every ablebodied member of the community who does not forfeit it by misconduct. They have the six points of Chartism, and they have no poverty : and all that these advantages do for them is that the life of the whole of one sex is devoted to dollarhunting, and of the other to breeding dollar-hunters.
Page 326 - Some man will ask, peradventure, Why I take the labour to make this work, inasmuch as they will burn it, seeing they burnt the Gospel? I answer, In burning the New Testament they did none other thing than that I looked for ; no more shall they do if they burn me also, if it be God's will it shall so be.
Page 144 - In the midst of plethoric plenty, the people perish; with gold walls, and full barns, no man feels himself safe or satisfied.
Page 308 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Page 311 - Pretender, and is much above ninety years old ; the finest figure you ever saw. He perfectly realizes all my ideas of Nestor. His literature is great, his knowledge of the world extensive, and his faculties as bright as ever...
Page 171 - States shall have original cognizance, as well in equity as at law, of all actions, suits, controversies, and cases arising under any law of the United States, granting or confirming to authors or inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings, inventions, and discoveries...
Page 320 - ... and increased as well in the knowledge of tongues and other liberal arts, as especially in the knowledge of the Scriptures, whereunto his mind was singularly addicted : insomuch that he, lying then in Magdalen Hall, read privily to certain students and fellows of Magdalen College some parcel of divinity; instructing them in the knowledge and truth of the Scriptures.